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From liberties of this kind , many speeches also were put into the mouths of
wrong persons , where the Author now seems chargeable with making them
speak out of character : Or sometimes perhaps for no better reason , than that a
governing ...
From liberties of this kind , many speeches also were put into the mouths of
wrong persons , where the Author now seems chargeable with making them
speak out of character : Or sometimes perhaps for no better reason , than that a
governing ...
Page xxix
For this reason , how fond do we see some people of discovering any little
personal story of the great men of Antiquity ! their families , the common accidents
of their lives , and even their shape , make , and features have been the subject
of ...
For this reason , how fond do we see some people of discovering any little
personal story of the great men of Antiquity ! their families , the common accidents
of their lives , and even their shape , make , and features have been the subject
of ...
Page xxxix
of too much from that likeness to truth which ought to be observ'd in these fort of
writings ; yet he do's it so very finely , that one is eafily drawn in to have more faith
for his fake , than reason does well allow of . His Magick has something in it very
...
of too much from that likeness to truth which ought to be observ'd in these fort of
writings ; yet he do's it so very finely , that one is eafily drawn in to have more faith
for his fake , than reason does well allow of . His Magick has something in it very
...
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And now I pray you , Sir , ( For still ' tis beating in my mind ) your reason For
raising this sea - Itorm ? Pro . Know thus far forth ; By accident moft strange
bountiful fortune ( Now my dear lady ) hath mine enemies Brought to this shore :
and by my ...
And now I pray you , Sir , ( For still ' tis beating in my mind ) your reason For
raising this sea - Itorm ? Pro . Know thus far forth ; By accident moft strange
bountiful fortune ( Now my dear lady ) hath mine enemies Brought to this shore :
and by my ...
Page 12
... Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune Seem'd to besiege , and make
his bold waves tremble , Yea , his dread trident shake . Pro . 3 ' That's my brave
spirit ! ' Who was so firm , so constant , that this coyl Would not infect his reason ?
... Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune Seem'd to besiege , and make
his bold waves tremble , Yea , his dread trident shake . Pro . 3 ' That's my brave
spirit ! ' Who was so firm , so constant , that this coyl Would not infect his reason ?
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Page 41 - The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning ! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid : to be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.
Page 138 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 501 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 127 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
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Page 323 - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page xxxi - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he...
Page xxx - In this kind of settlement he continued for some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
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| Title | The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1 The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Sir Thomas Hanmer |
| Publisher | J. and P. Knapton, 1745 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2007 |
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